[Talk-us] Street Naming Conventions

[Bill Ricker]

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Lord-Castillo, Brett <
BLord-Castillo at stlouisco.com> wrote:

> River City Blvd/River City Casino Blvd; many people think the first is an
> abbreviation of the former. It isn't, two different streets that will route
> mail (and traffic) to two different sets of addresses
>

At least they're spelled differently.

In Boston, E911 call-takers need the Zip code implicit in the phone line
(wired or cell tower) to disambiguate exactly the same street name. Every
town that merged into Boston already had a Washington St  and none gave them
up.
http://maps.google.com/maps?oi=map&q=Washington%20St%2C%20Suffolk%2C%20MA
Also Charles, Mt Vernon, Park, ...

-- 
Bill
n1vux at arrl.net bill.n1vux at gmail.com
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